Show A COLOSSAL SCHEME TO DEFRAUD air hr ah chard i ng writing from paris to the new now york world ll 11 or id explains the method by which old french frerich postage post ligo stamps are renovated and used on letters packages ac the second time thus defrauding the F rench postal department out ot vast amounts of its revenue mr ir tho the french fico has just made a startling discovery the tile collection of old postage stumps stamps is not always the amiable mania it is supposed to be with some few people I 1 if itis is part art of a colossal scheme to defraud fraux the revenue innocent children who bother their elders for old ola stamps aro are mere instruments in tho the hands of a few crafty buyers who ultimately ti get hold field of these things by millions to obliterate the postmark post mark marv and sell them over again this is at least tile theory of the french post office though probably it goes pretty far beyond the mark however a solemn commission has been appointed to sit on the subject andal and M alfred baquet I 1 a member of the commission who is a chemist as well as an all apostle of divorce has been making a series of experiments and has a means of obliteration first ho lie tried such thi bilings as ether sulphur ato of carbon and hot oil but the postmark refused refuse d to stir this was followed by a strong solution of potash with tho the same result it did lid not bring out the postmark but it brought out all the rest but a light solution of the same gently rubbed over the stamp the finger ila biad just tho the contrary effect the file obnoxious postmark yielded and left tho the stamp perfectly good to complete the demonstration al na wiet wrote a letter to the minister of posts I 1 and telegraphs posted it with one of the marked stamps and had the satisfaction of seeing that it reached its destination without willi out detection of fraud it is doubtful whether M 1 baquet has done lone much service to the depa department ram ent it w will ill ho be a long time in ili any case before they can change change their method of marking and thelis the discovery covery will in tho the meantime bo be at the service of any rogue who chooses to employ it moreover when a new printing ink is found tho the publicity given t to this proceeding will be sure to bring man many 7 more rogues into tho the field of investigation and indelibility and obliteration will run a neck and neck race rate together like armor and guns T sin JULIUS T lri of the new water flour mills of dryden lapeer county midi writes aithus to the editor of the chicago what dodou do you think about this gui leau affard I 1 believe that US grant arthur conklin others aio are at tile bottom of tho tile holl affire and presume that guiteau has been druger and kept ever sinco once lie shot garfield I 1 i further think that if garfield had of been taken rite rito to his flome in ohio one doctor one of his own famil family to watch that doctor eliat tl at garlice would be alive well today to day daya 4 weeks after he cashot he lie was almost well v rested well on his atomic up to this timo time tearo was no signes of dis pepsy all at once lie was taken worse vomited and ind could not sleep would not dollars a piece pur pure chas all of their doctors and could not thier drs put a small emetic in liis his vit tules vomit other drugs to prevent sleep aeo so wore the poor ilela less man out one dr said after garfield was ded that if the other drs didiot let up on oil him lihn that ho lie would tell something that the they would not like I 1 think that the dr dived lived in philadelphia Could not their 22 million bonds of been printed oft off tho the genuine iric plate by this same click before it was distio used to pay of their Bribes easo so as alnotto notto have to lake take tho the money out of their own pockets why lias has not those letters found on oil guitrau hen ben published now why cannot his confession confes hion bo be published haa has it come to this that a coald blud ded murder of the president of the tile U S A can call take place and tho tile murders confession cannot connot bo be published til all high 0 fischels at washington have passed away high handed crimo crime and murder have taken place in E eng n lish other europen corts wo read about them in history but we have probably have got one now nto rite in in washington washington has bet becom orn a verry corrupt place and arid all th the peoples 0 o representatives that wont eide side with this corruption is unseated sent home the tile people must elect ther president and representatives by direct ballot then see that they arc are seated or clee this grate republic will be a grato grata den dan of iniquity murder is already looked upon as no tio crime now in the TJ S A yours truly 1 I 1 A FEW rays MYS since 1 soup noodle looking sporting fellow entered the editorial sanctum of the chicago tribune lie ile had a cigarette in his mouth and a small hat bat about the of a it tablespoon on his lie head ad after looking around in a ft vacant manner lie a asked which editor do I 1 want well y said tho the trotting horse editor ceasing for an instant his la a bore bors in connection with a sketch of the life and career of Passaic y you look as if you really ought to seo see the editor with the club but probably I 1 am rm nii mistaken staken As a general friend of humanity however howe vcr I 1 would advise you to shoot the torch do what sir inquired inquire d the young man shoot the torch put out that dizzy little street pipe do you mean this th is cigarette asked and visitor it was the reply you just drop that thing or r else sherry yourself around the corner corne r wo ive gat pet enough cigarette smoke from young ducks that come around here saturdays with society items na 1 WARLIKE editors editor 4 says tho the chicago b alews on or reading the accounts of the doings of the british fleet 1 alexandria alexandrin arc are immensely ni merry over the american navil display in the egyptian harbor inthe gathering was a competitive peti tive one then our display was not dot greatly to our credit but it docs does not appear to bo be the fact that the assembling of ships was for the purpose of seeing whether america or great britain could make the best showing this adverse criticism of the A merican ship ships is about df of a kind that would be the assertion that some of the spectators who attended the ryan evan sullivan prize fight were infera inferior or in muscle to the men who did the mauling As we have no intention of stealing a foreign province we wo have no need of a navy chrt will compare favorably with that odthe of the european powers whose trade is the rol robbery abery of the smaller provinces jiin firm napoleon had anamae an amazing memory for figure figures lie ile remembered the respective products of all tax through every year of his administration and could repeat them even to the tile centimes cen times running over an account of expenditures ho lie noted the rations of a ba battalion t charged on oil a certain day at besancon that battalion was not there said lie the IN minister finister knowing that had been out of franco at the time submitted that lie thought 0 it must have been there it turned out that napoleon con was wim right and that a it fraud had been committed the peculator was dismissed and the anecdote went through t the army inspiring a wholesome alarm RATHER A STARTLING and ing subject was chosen by one 6 0 t the commencement speakers at cornell on thursday namely the Tine idoo inal infesting sting apple trees at ithaca by armin earnest brunn no doubt mr brunn had studied liia topic and knew what lie was talking about which is perhaps more than would have been the tile ca case a had bad he lie chosen instead the TrucIe true method thod of arctic exploration or the tile lesson of life though I 1 I 1 these titles might have looked less im strange on a commencement program A SUIT for breach of promise reverses the usual order of quell litigation it is the man who sues he ile is george young a wealthy and respected merchant the defendant is the widow sarah jane F fleming leming both arc are past lie heyday of youth they were cri engaged 0 b to marry and the day lay was appointed but before it arr arrived ved mrs tirs fleming changed her liar mind and said that she would not have a 1 I stepfather for liar children mr young 0 demands I 1 |